CivicActions

CivicActions is proud to present our latest collaborative project, which launched today... Women's Funding Network.

Our team completed the Drupal development work on this site, in partnership with The Communication Group, and our old friend and former CivicActions colleague, Karyn Gladstone.

The Way I Work

I work primarily as a project manager at CivicActions, though I do serve in other roles as well. Being a project manager means that I am managing the schedules, workplan and budget for a number of projects at once, and that I work on one project or another with a large percentage of the whole CA team. My job requires a lot of patience, flexibility, communication, and the ability to keep track of seemingly several million details at once. It also requires a sense of humor, the ability to educate people, and sometimes, an iron will.

Physical Space

I just found the following interesting facts compiled by Women Who Tech, which incidentally is hosting a Tele-Summit on Women in Technology on March 31st, 2008.

Top 5 Cities Where Women Work in IT

• Washington, DC Metro area - women account for 32.3% of the IT workforce.
• Detroit - women account for 31.5% of the IT workforce.
• Baltimore - women account for 28.6% of the IT workforce.
• Philadelphia - women account for 28.2% of the IT workforce.
• Atlanta - women account for 28.2% of the IT workforce.
  

Architecture for Humanity, an organization co-founded by 2006 TED prize-winner Cameron Sinclair is employing a winning strategy to raise funds. They are using eBay to auction off a special VIP Pass to this year's TED Conference.

Today, December 10, 2007, marks two important birthdays:

I saw this global warming ad this morning and it seemed to me to capture my own feelings about it. I find myself frustrated when I see the scientific evidence of global warming, but that people choose to spend their energy debating its validity instead of doing something about it, just in case. Worth seeing and sharing...

http://www.change.org/videos?video_id=1615

When I was in college, I read what is still one of the most impactful books of my life: Material World by Peter Menzel. What was most impactful about this book to me was that it was mostly images depicting the possessions of people all over the world, outside of their homes. This made it both visibly impactful (since I could no longer ignore the huge difference between even what I owned as a scraping-by college student and what people in developing nations possessed) but also spiritually impactful, as I read about the families and how they made do with so little.

Oregon State Senator Betsy Johnson (of Scappoose) introduced the Oregon Better Health Act today at the request of the Archimedes Movement (www.wecandobetter.org). The bill, which would allow the state of Oregon to seek exceptions from the federal government to use federal and state dollars in a way that makes more sense in addressing rising medical costs.

The bill would:

The Archimedes Movement, a project of the Foundation for Medical Excellence, initiated by former Oregon state Governor John Kitzhaber, will launch a new website on December 5th that will support their goal of changing the way that people think about and work toward universal health care. The site, designed to maximize the effectiveness of online and in-person activism taking place all over the state, includes features such as document forums where members can discuss and suggest changes to proposed legislation, and a Chapter section, where members in a defined geographic area can call and publicize meetings, post and generate dialog about meeting notes, and post stories, blog posts, photos and other content that is specific to a given area.

The votes are in and the winning Flunk Arnold video is "How to Solve a Financial Crisis" by CSU Sacramento student Miguel Francis.

The video will appear statewide as an ad during the Daily Show with Jon Stewart tonight, November 2, 2006, at 11 P.M. on Comedy Central. Check to see what cable operators are running the ad in your area.

Thank you to everybody who submitted videos, websites and voted for their favorites. You have helped start a netroots revolution.